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No state tax on ppl under 100k: taxes go away across the board for most folk, unless you think most people earn more than 100k in CA

You actually misread my post, so goodbye from your own miscomprehension I guess

The Trump tax is giving lots of people $ in their pockets.

What political dividends or affordability benefits is that winning people?

OK, then I bet you dollars to donuts the moment taxes go away across the board for most folk rents and other costs “mysteriously” go up.

Trust bust like mad to encourage price competition instead of rent-seeking

How about: reset tariff rates back to Biden era, and rescind any tariff authority from the president for a start

We need a complete shutdown on “No Tax On…” proposals until we can figure out what the hell is going on

And what the hell are you saying “if dems want to stay in power,” excuse me fellow, but who controls all three branches of fed government right now?

National dems are just such a fucking cooked group.

This isn’t democratic, it is a complete republican ideological concession - the US government can’t help you, it only hurts you by taking your hard-earned money.

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Affordability is not a tax problem.

Example one: if suddenly everyone in CA making 100k has more disposable money, do you think market rents will go up, or down, or stay the same?

it feels like a lot of Dems are suddenly trying "we can run a robust social safety net by only taxing rich people and corporations" messaging and that is

a) not a great message, in that we should all contribute

b) not actually true, math-wise

we don't have a too-much-tax problem, we have a too-litle-tax problem. the trump admin is cutting programs that help people and build-up societal infrastructure. you're not going to even-less-tax your way out of that problem.

If it’s not fucking complicated, Booker & Porter should have led with it instead of being democrats in name only

Porter & Booker are giving free propaganda to GOP talking points that taxes are bad. Taxes are good! They pay for the things that make a society good! Libraries, schools, infrastructure, social safety nets! Even guillotining all billionaires is not enough to durably build a great society!

CA was very close to Medicare for all some years back but died on among other things, questions on revenue. And this was when pretty much everyone was going to be paying into it. What kind of great society are you going to build if pretty much most people are not paying into it?

At least with prop 13 reform, you are still mapping revenue progressively but in a more stable way (property values don’t swing like the market, even rich people need homes)

Californias revenue problem is already that it’s extremely progressive.

So much of its revenue comes from stocks vesting that the state swings from huge deficit to huge surplus based on the vagaries of the market.

It is not good tax policy to make yourself more brittle on the vagaries of the rich

which group of democratic consultant ghouls circulated data about this no tax on the middle-class coordinated policy campaign launch shit

WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY. YOU HAVE OBLIGATIONS TO OTHER PEOPLE IN A SOCIETY. YOU SHOULD BE GETTING MORE FOR YOUR TAX DOLLARS.

losing my mind

Not to start a religious debate but not sure Catholics got the balance on this right

my grandma lived in queens, and as her health started to get worse, an uncle offered to house her where he lived in alabama, and she bluntly refused. her reason was basically urbanist talking points, why move to where she'll need to be driven when she can get to everything she needs via walking/bus

Looking forward to Obsidian’s take on super smash bros, gonna main Andreas but keep Eder on the side as a counter-pick

Trump is committed to making tariffs working somehow, so I’m pretty sure there’s going to be a collective market effort to resist downward price pressure to prepare for whatever else Trump tries slapping against the wall

The jungle primary was the worst attempt at election reform

i really shouldn't participate, but Andrew Jackson is most certainly not a founder.

Europeans will mock Americans for our absurd use of non-metric but then still use TL (Teelöffel, teaspoon) and EL (Esslöffel, tablespoon) in their recipes!

that is to say, to me it sounds like Wahab is right

is my interpretation correct in that there's a confusion here between opex vs capex in the reporting/original tweet? BART is in a precarious position because of operating dollars, but capital projects come out of a different till

Same

even before the pandemic hit, there was already whispernet style chatter among developers that market rents couldn't support more new construction. i wish that constructon costs had gone down instead of everything else that happened, but a building boom is a building boom